The first of my 2 articles on a US court case regarding the intersection of Palestinian, academic, and speech freedoms: jacobin.com/2025/10/pale... A recent successful court case brought by university professors against the Trump administration’s ideological deportations is a win

Friends! I'll be walking in a 5K UNRWA fundraiser on Sunday in support of Palestinian refugees - in honor of my mom Betty, who's turning 97 in a few days. Please donate what you can and share with others. Thanks! getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...

jacobin.com/2025/10/pale... So much wisdom in this conversation: "without focusing on that broader working-class agenda & without focusing on winning over people who don’t already agree with you ... how [will you] build enough power to... change US policy toward Israel and the Middle East”

Hey Americans: These ICE maniacs, who clearly need lifetimes of therapy for whatever propels them into such brutality, are not staying focused on brown people and Palestinians and noncitizens forever.

For anyone interested in Palestine, Palestinians, and the madness that is Germany, I highly recommend this essay by Sarah El Bulbeisi www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"No, the New York Times is not committing journalism." "No, the New York Times is not committing to truth." What Bret Stephens meant to say.

Public Anthropologist issue on Israel's genocide of Palestinians is now open access until October: brill.com/view/journal... (I co-edited with Heidi Mogstad). It's reflections on what anthropologists can contribute to public education about the genocide in Gaza, and the limitations 1/4

Novel analysis of Egypt - now available for readers of Arabic

Of possible interest, esp. if you're planning a trip to Paris by November: my review essay on an exhibit, “Treasures rescued from Gaza – 5000 years of history”, at the Arab World Institute orientxxi.info/lu-vu-entend...

A little victory in London - Lockheed can eff right off: novaramedia.com/2025/06/19/a...

"Speaking Out Against Genocide and Repression," a special issue of Public Anthropologist edited by Heidi Mogstad and me is out brill.com/view/journal... 1/3

Join us in condemning Kings Place’s morally bankrupt decision to host this arms conference by adding your name to this growing list of artists and audiences of conscience. Genocide cannot become “business as usual”. bit.ly/3Sfol5D @kingsplacelondon @webelieveinartnotarms

Yezid Sayigh's review of a history of the PLO research center. carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...

Prof. Khalidi: "Columbia barely merits the name of a university, since its teaching & scholarship on the Middle East, & soon much else, will...be vetted by a “senior vice provost for inclusive pedagogy”, in reality a senior vice provost for Israeli propaganda." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We refuse to accept the normalisation of Palestinian deaths. End arms sales to Israel, now.

A few (8) members of Congress who still care about the constitution. Wonders never cease.

🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody. We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud

Ajantha Subramanian and I talk w/ John Plotz about our chats w/ Peter Beinart and Subir Sinha in the roundup episode of Violent Majorities. recallthisbook.org/2025/03/06/1... We ask: Will the ominously successful assimilation of Zionism into American right-wing politics start working for Hindutva?

Labour could tax the super-rich to end poverty, build social housing and fix our NHS. They are choosing to go after the worst-off instead. For a while, many people didn’t know what this government stood for. They do now: tough choices for the poor, endless money for war.

The first episode was on Zionism with Peter Beinart: recallthisbook.org/2025/02/06/1...

The second episode of the podcast series on long-distance ethnonationalisms that I did with @loriall.bsky.social is now out. Please check out our conversation on Hindutva in India, the UK, and US with Subir Sinha! recallthisbook.org/2025/02/20/1...

Listen to my podcast episode with Ajantha Subramanian & Subir Sinha on Recall This Book/ New Books Network newbooksnetwork.com/subir-sinha-... We discuss the growth of Hindutva in the US & UK, & the manufacture of wounded Hindu sentiments: a false claim to victimhood 1/2

My review of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Peter Beinart jacobin.com/2025/02/zion... Blending biblical critique with political observations, it rethinks the meaning of Jewishness today.

The New Yorker once described Peter Beinart as the most influential liberal Zionist of his generation. No longer. Listen to my conversation with him and Ajantha Subramanian about his latest book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning newbooksnetwork.com/being-jewish...

Ajantha Subramanian and I had a good conversation w/ Peter Beinart about his new book Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. Listen on Recall This Book/ New Books Network podcast: newbooksnetwork.com/being-jewish.... The 1st of 3 episodes on long distance ethno-nationalism.

Why don't we get the personal stories of every one of the thousands of Palestinians who Israel has held hostage? Why don't we hear every one of their tales of horror and fear and torture and celebrate their lives and care about their families' pain and horror and fear?

In a very interesting interview with @SayighYezid, Anne-Marie McManus discusses Syria’s prison system and its importance in the country’s transition. carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...

Famine - another of Israel's disgusting tools of genocide. "the territory’s proportion of people experiencing an extreme lack of food is the highest [that IPC, a famine monitoring body] has seen anywhere in the world." www.reuters.com/investigates...

A lovely short essay by my friend Sari Hanafi that speaks volumes for me too: www.newarab.com/opinion/why-...

"I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge—even wisdom. Like art." -Toni Morrison, www.thenation.com/article/arch...

This disgusting world full of politicians ignoring popular opinion and common morality and allowing this to happen

You may think the repression of university faculty and students for speaking out on Palestine has nothing to do with you if you're not at university-but you'd be wrong. Stifling academics greases the slippery slope to fascism that will shut your mouth one day too. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...

BREAKING: The AAUP condemns today’s faculty arrests at NYU. “This crackdown on NYU faculty is part of a distressing pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses nationwide.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson. ⬇️ www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...

The moral abyss into which perpetrators and victims of famine are hurled, along with all of us living in a world where Palestinians and others are being forced to starve as a weapon of genocide: www.bostonreview.net/articles/eng...

Toronto, December 9 Marking the anniversary of the 1948 Genocide Convention, health workers held press conferences in over 20 countries, calling for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, demanding a two-way arms embargo, rapid and unimpeded humanitarian access, and an end to international complicity.

Yezid on what happened with the Syrian army & Assad

Our gerontocracy needs to be dismantled. These older folks should be relaxing at home, not grasping to power till the very end.

So at least it's not the army in control!

This is what I got when I googled for Sednaya prison just now! I hope it stays this way!!!

Amazing and a delight, when so many are wordless in the face of the genocide in Gaza, when so many berate ourselves for being unable to capture in language horror escaping meaning or representation, to read of wordlessness from the morning that flows from Damascus today.

An older article, but offers amazing insights into Hindutva abroad; on ways local declining economies and "austerity" (starving regular people of support) in the UK & long distance nationalisms can combine into violence : www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024....

Why has the mass murder of Palestinians become abnormalized?

Some essays on international law and Gaza from the London Review of International Law have been translated into Arabic and published by Madar. You can find a link to the issue here: https://madarcenter.orgمجلة-قضايا/12340-قضايا-إسرائيلية-العدد-95

More reasons to support academic boycott of Israeli institutions - universities complicit in genocide: x.com/MiddleEastEy... ; www.middleeasteye.net/news/tel-avi...

'Revenge' videos, burning buildings and willful destruction: A year of Israeli soldiers’ social media postings from Gaza provide an unvarnished view of likely war crimes there. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... by our @washingtonpost.com team.

Is The Guardian serious? "PERCEIVED impunity" for Israel, not actual? It's the ICC warrants that "expose international law as a facade", not the decades of terrorizing settler occupation from the river to the sea and torture of Palestinians? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🧵 With all the movement over to this app, I wanted to take a minute to share a few of my (and my amazing co-authors) most recent (from 2024) publications on #Palestine, some peer-reviewed articles (all open access) and some shorter policy briefs and pieces for popular media.

Horrifying and disgusting : Israel and its accomplices killing children every day, day after day www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11...